Why use Cardinal Components?
Answer: Your One-Stop Solution for Product Assembly, Kitting Services & Custom Metal

Consolidate [ kən-ˈsä-lə-ˌdāt ]

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To combine a number of things into a more effective and coherent whole

Partner with Cardinal! For 40+ years, customers continue to depend on Cardinal to CONSOLIDATE their supply chain by providing ONE-STOP turnkey Custom Metal, Specialty Fasteners, and Product Assembly solutions.

Customers cut one P.O. directly to Cardinal, then Cardinal reviews the order to assure all requirements are understood, then leverages one of our quality-driven manufacturers to create the needed product.

Cardinal continually is developing it’s stable of proven suppliers in a variety of manufacturing disciplines:

Cardinal is truly “Your One Stop Sourcing Shop”!

Every year, our roster of manufacturing partners grows stronger, which speaks to our commitment to continual improvement on behalf of our customers. We ask our customers, “identify your #1 supply chain pain or most important strategic supply objective and see how Cardinal can innovate a sourcing solution to support you.”

Cardinal’s engineering team and quality teamwork with our customers with help solve challenging problems and assure that only good product is shipped from Cardinal’s warehouse to our customer’s production line.

Custom Metal – As your one-stop sourcing shop, Cardinal can source all your custom metal needs, from custom springs to multi-axis machined components, you can depend on Cardinal. Customers enjoy the simplicity of cutting a P.O. to Cardinal, and knowing that Cardinal will take care of all the job details by leveraging our diverse network of manufacturers and catalog vendors.

Contract Product Assembly & Kitting Services  – Customers decrease costs, consolidate the supply chain, and increase inventory turns when contracting assemblies & kitting services to Cardinal. When a customer cuts a single P.O. to Cardinal, we go to work on procuring, managing and assembling the entire bill of material (BOM) into a finished assembly or a custom kit. Our contract assembly services include expertise in product assembly, mechanical assembly & sub assembly. Our custom contract kitting services include master kits, sub kits, auto-bagging, plastic containers, labeling, and cardboard boxing. Our production cells are flexible to allow quick changeover from one job to the next. For high volume assembly and custom kitting jobs, we have the space to dedicate an entire production cell to support ongoing customer demand. We maintain slack in our assembly and kitting scheduling, so we can quickly ramp up for new work and offer fast turnaround on existing work.

Specialty Fasteners – Rivet Nut USA™, a division of Cardinal Components, Inc., is your #1 distributor for rivet nuts (Bollhoff Rivnut® fasteners), rivets (Industrial Rivet fasteners), electronic fasteners, and threaded inserts. We also provide the most options for installation tooling including pneumatic, battery-operated, and manual tools. We stock the largest selection of specialty fasteners and installation tools in the USA, with an experienced team of rivet nut specialists to help you find what you need. Contact Rivet Nut USA for more information and be sure to ask about blanket ordering!

Save time & money – Cardinal improves lead-times and offers competitive pricing on top quality custom product, while stocking blanket orders to provide just-in-time delivery.

Program Launches – Cardinal supports our customers with strong execution to optimize program launches. Cardinal provides First Articles, Level III PPAPs with IMDS, and more! Our proven systems and procedures allow us to provide world-class products and services for the entire program, from concept through delivery.

 

Note: Rivet Nut USA is a wholly owned distributing division of Cardinal Components, Inc., focused on the distribution of rivet nuts and other specialty fasteners. Please visit our specialty fastener division website, www.RivetNutUSA.com, for more information on Rivet Nut USA.

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Industries We Serve

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Auto / Truck

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Agriculture

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Construction

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Aerospace

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Defense / Marine

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Food

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Appliances

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Medical

Your #1 Sourcing Solution

For 40+ years, Cardinal Components has been consolidating our OEM supply chains, providing one-stop-shop product solutions.

 

YOUR ONE-STOP SOURCING SHOP!: Reduce the number of suppliers in your supply chain by sourcing through Cardinal. Cardinal has developed a deep roster of proven, capable manufacturing partners that bring forth the best mind to provide innovative solutions and world-class products. Cardinal has partnerships in every manufacturing discipline (Fabrication & Welding, Machined Components, Custom Springs, Stamping, Grinding, Finishing, etc.) that work with Cardinal to fill your Custom Metal, Contract Product Assembly, & Kitting Services needs.

LEVERAGE OUR TECHNICAL EXPERTISE: Select us as your trusted assembly provider, kitting service, or custom metal source…and you gain a partner that is eager to provide you 360-degree engineering, design, and quality assurance support! We help along each step: design, prototype, Level III (3) PPAP, assembly, and issue resolution. Before starting production on a new product, Cardinal puts the product through our New Product Review (NPR) process. The heart of the NPR is a 150-point production and quality checklist that we have developed for 20 years, the checklist is now on revision 61!!! Some recent NPR success stories:

  • Cardinal identified a fabricated bend radius that was too tight and likely would have resulted in eventual field failure due to cracking. Cardinal’s customer updated their drawing and reduced risk of costly warranty issues down the road. See more on our Fabrication & Welding webpage.
  • Cardinal’s customer had concern with possible mating issues between two parts. With no additional production costs, Cardinal suggested that our customer update their drawing to add a GD&T parallelism and 32 Ra finish requirement to each drawing. Parts were produced and subsequently, have mated together without issue. See more on our Machined Components webpage.
  • Cardinal suggested a customer update the drawing to allow a component to be made out of a more common 6061 aluminum, instead of 5052 aluminum, resulting in a $2,400 cost savings. See more on our Spring, Wire & Tube webpage.

TOP-TIER CUSTOMER SERVICE: Our standard is to offer short lead-times at competitive pricing, properly engage & revert quotes in a timely manner and offer friendly responsiveness throughout the entire transaction cycle. Tired of begging for answers from your current supplier?  If so, then don’t hesitate and send us an RFQ today! Read more about us below, and please review our Customer Testimonial webpage.

LET US LEND A HAND: Besides being your #1 sourcing partner, Cardinal’s in-house assembly and kitting team manages a steady backlog of ongoing contract work that we complete in our clean 15,000 sq ft brand new warehouse. The full suite of services we offer include assembly (mechanical, electro-mechanical, sub, master, etc.), kitting services, packaging, storage, order fulfillment, quality assurance, sorting and performance testing. Check out our photos and videos throughout our Contract Product Assembly, Kitting Services & Warehousing/Storage webpages to get a sense of our Milwaukee-based hands on capabilities.

INCREASE YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN STABILITY: A tremendous benefit that customers gain when working with Cardinal is a newly realized measure of supply chain stability. Cardinal maintains relationships with several sources in every manufacturing discipline to assure business continuity should one of our suppliers fail to meet expectations or experience a business interruption (i.e., COVID-19 shutdown). Cardinal’s financial strength is an asset to our customers, depending on Cardinal to stock items and make the right investments to remain a strong contributor in the overall supply chain ecosystem.

DEPEND ON OUR ISO 9001 QUALITY: All product that comes into Cardinal (assemblies, kitting & custom metal) passes through our battle-tested ISO 9001 certified quality system, which assures a consistent and high-quality standard with appropriate lot control (drills down to component that goes into assemblies and kits) & documentation (sales order confirmation, packing slip, material certification, plating certification, First Article, Level III PPAP, etc.).

 

Please send drawings and EAU to sales@cardinalcomponents.com. We can help you when you begin working on a new project, looking for a new source, troubleshooting, or trying to accomplish a strategic supply objective.